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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

My Lords, I always like it when the Minister is herself. She puts a human face on the Home Office, which it earnestly needs. We are grateful for her offer to consider the children, although not right up to the age of 17½. I think it is a brilliant idea that, faut de mieux, the age of criminal responsibility be the age at which someone can properly undergo a character test. That seems like the kind of common sense we would have liked to have thought of. I sincerely hope that by Third Reading the Minister will have been able to formulate this, as she rapidly has in other respects, in the form of an amendment we can look at. I am also grateful to her for the assurance that all the categories of people we have described are in fact covered by other means, even though we still think it is absurd to have to take these people out from the right to register, which they have always enjoyed, then put them back in by some other means. We are very pleased that they do get back in. With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 56 and 57 not moved.]